Currently Browsing: August 2018

Lavender Lavender is featured in Water Garden and Briarwood Garden. Lavender is a bushy plant with long, delicate stems and leaves. The blue/mauve flowers form long spikes with a knobby texture. It looks to be related to Veronica but the structure and colour of the leaves are different. Stalks and Leaves: Green 988 (2). Flowers: […]

Hello Friends and Fellow Stitchers, Lazy Daisy stitches and French Knots have been used forever for portraying flowers. Using alternative but basic stitches was my mission when I developed and then published Hand Stitching Recognizable Summer Flowers. After much experimentation and, many failures, here are the results. You will not have to do what I […]

Here is a new video that updates us on the progress made to the Stamford Bridge Tapestry. I wrote about this project a few months ago. The video will tell you and show you the embroidery in progress. Here is a repeat of the historical background. 1066 was a bad year for England. Very bad […]